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greg – my Vista machine loaded fine. I don’t work for BAM but the error is a handling error and I assume the loading object wants a DLL that either isn’t there or is in a place other than it thinks it should be.

You might try uninstalling mosaic, rebooting, then go to windows update and be sure you have all the current updates, expecially for NET. Now this is just a guess.

Justin – one thing I noticed is that when Mosaic is up and running and you bring up Task Manager, Mosaic crashes.

Also, swarmcast is not shutting down with the application.

And, who in the dickens is Omniture? 😉 It’s a bit funky they seem to be listening in on the address verification page that also includes credit card data.

I am having difficulties verifying my address and credit card information as well. However my wallet and credit cards where stolen last weekend and have been since cancelled. Does the verifying process actually try to charge the card? Or does it just match the information to the billing data that I used to purchase the MLB.TV premium yearly plan? When I get sent a new credit card, how do I set up my account so that my MLB.TV subscription and Mosaic are synced with the same billing data? I live in Austria. Thank You!

I am having issues as well. Running on Windows XP. *Most* the time when i double click on the archived game or baseball tv it works (the audio is off on the A’s game).. but when I try watching the archived game or baseball tv in the panels i get stream errors..and nothing works. I have tried it a ton of times and one time i got the baseball tv to run in a panel.. but not the a’s game and since that one time none will work. I have rebooted and all that. Thanks.

We’re aware of the vista issues, which we hope to have resolved in the next few days.

there are a few scenarios as well that could cause the occasional crashes. We’ll be issuing another release this morning, that should clean up some of this, and will be addressing each one as we find them.

bat9th: swarmcast needs to be running, in order for the mosaic streams to work. do you by any chance have a local firewall?

Regarding the CC verification – an easy work around for issues here is to verify that you can log into mlb.tv premium via the site (which some of you may not yet have done). We’ll cache the data for verification and then mosaic should work.

each time i load mosaic i get a message that VMR9 capabilities are required and that i need to verify that the hardware acceleration is enabled. I have verified but i keep getting this error everytime i start the software…any ideas? thamks

Justin, you wrote: “Regarding the CC verification – an easy work around for issues here is to verify that you can log into mlb.tv premium via the site (which some of you may not yet have done). We’ll cache the data for verification and then mosaic should work.”

Unfortunately that’s not the case. I still get the “Address Verifification Form”. This is under OS X 10.4.9. Have you looked at the stack trace I sent? Seems to me there’s a (packaging?) problem with Axis2 classes, perhaps?

Thanks Justin for taking the time to listen member’s feedback. This is rare these days. I watched the 1st inning of the OAK vs. SF replay this morning. Hopefully that was enough for you to cache my location. I will try Mosaic again tonight.

My player tracker is doing the same thing – throwing up random lists. How disappointing. Is it normal for the program to need to constantly buffer? According to MLB.com, my connection is 10x faster than what is needed…

Regarding the CC verification – an easy work around for issues here is to verify that you can log into mlb.tv premium via the site (which some of you may not yet have done). We’ll cache the data for verification and then mosaic should work.
Posted by: Justin | April 2, 2007 08:06 AM

Justin, this is not true. I can view all the streams through the regular selection process. I can log-in fine, except with Mosaic.

my connection is constantly buffering or getting stream errors. I’m getting a 24 – 48 mb connection (wireless) in a hotel in India. I believe I have set up the protocols correctly per MLB.com requirements. Help.

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